Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Michaelmas

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 1, 2015September 29, 2017

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 28, 2015

I was thinking today about cars; as a family we didn’t have a car until I was about seven or eight years old – we lived in Cambridge and everyone had bikes so being without a car was not such a big deal then. The bus service was good so any longer journeys were easy […]

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 27, 2015September 27, 2015

Missing the point, or summing it up!

I’ve been sharing some photos from Dismaland, Banksy’s Bemusement park in Weston-super-Mare… it really is an alternative to theme parks, and raises some important, thought provoking, and disturbing questions about our society.

Dismaland (4)

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 26, 2015August 24, 2017

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 25, 2015September 23, 2015

Dismaland (3)

Dismaland Bemusement Park which has been open since the middle of August in the derelict and neglected old swimming pool on Weston-super-Mare seafront, has been a great success. When my family first moved to Weston in the late 1960’s, the pool, built in 1937, was open and popular with tourists and residents alike. Young people […]

Dismaland (1)

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 23, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 18, 2015October 8, 2017

Hydrangea

It’s September…

writing by LoisSeptember 9, 2015September 2, 2018

Simple technology

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 3, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 2, 2015

House for sale

We have no immediate plans to move house; we have lived here for nearly fourteen years and like our house, and the village we live in very much. However every so often I see a property for sale and have a little dream about buying it… but that’s all it is a dream. If we did […]